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For those new to the wildross-verse...I had prostate cancer surgery in late February of this year. So I'm on a comeback trail.

I need to compete in a USAPL sanctioned meet so I can represent team NF at the nationals in October. Since I'm over 40...I don't have to meet a total. I just have to put up a total in a meet.

Nevertheless, the week before my surgery I did 430/340/410. I want to do at least that in July. Plus I need to drop some weight. I'm going to be in the super heavy weights anyway, but I want to be closer to the bottom than I am right now.

My work schedule the next 2 months is rather insane already....so expect lots of lifting from odd places.

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I do not like early morning flights. But I'm getting better at them. 6:30AM Raleigh to Fort Lauderdale. Nicely empty so not only did I get the emergency row (extra leg room) but there's noone beside me so I can use the middle tray for holding stuff and don't have to worry about elbowing anybody..

I was supposed to be in Raleigh for 4 days of training. But one of my sales reps got a meeting with a customer we've been chasing for 2 years. Could be a major client for us, so off to Fort Lauderdale for the day. I worked ahead for the class last night and will catch up the rest tomorrow morning.

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Wish I could, but Its going to take me some time to sell Mrs. Harbard on the whole idea. Plus, I'd just embarras myself right now. I think by next year I'll feel good enough about my progress to actually wear a singlet in public.

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when I last competed, one of my fellow competitors was an 80+ year old blind man who could barely hear. He had a seeing eye dog. He wanted to bench press (he had been practicing). So a group of us worked with the judges to get it setup so one of us could tap him for the commands, I held the leash on his dog and others lead him by the hand.

Believe me, you will only be embarrassed in your own mind, and that will be true no matter what your total is or isn't...

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when I last competed, one of my fellow competitors was an 80+ year old blind man who could barely hear. He had a seeing eye dog. He wanted to bench press (he had been practicing). So a group of us worked with the judges to get it setup so one of us could tap him for the commands, I held the leash on his dog and others lead him by the hand.

Believe me, you will only be embarrassed in your own mind, and that will be true no matter what your total is or isn't...

I was feeling great on the bench, then on the 3rd rep of the second set of 315 it dawned on me that I didn't have a spotter or safeties. Kind of freaked me out, so I decided to call it a night. 385 squat was solid too.